The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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#250 கண்ணா உனைத்தேடுகிறேன் வா
(உனக்காகவே வாழ்கிறேன், 1986 , ஜானகியுடன்)

The fantastic strings beauty sung by the top pair when they were in top form!

A song that I can hear on repeat for many days!

I can go on and on about the prathAbams of this song and still cannot do any justice. I'll let musical experts like V_Sji, skr, Sureshji talk about its merits

Let me stick to my favourite passtime - that of ruminating on some malarum ninaivukaL! (Definite sign of getting old. But then, who cares when the world has already concluded that I'm old BTW, the half-filipino-half-jamaican BA of our team was telling about the remark our Indian teammate made to her about me, after seeing my pic that was taken by another ChennaivAsi who recently visited our place: 'Hey, I was thinking that this guy must be young but he is so grey'...His earlier notion could have been based on the way I speak in conf calls...however I've never tried to give the impression 'I'm also youththu')

Like I mentioned in the prior post, this song was first heard while sitting in a bus in Oddanchatram bus stand, fretting why it was taking so much time in such a small place and not leaving yet. Like a great blessing, this recording shop which is very close to the bus station started to play this song aloud in a terrific music system and I was flying (instantly recognizing that this must be a recent IR number)! Well, from that point of time, I've heard it many times on buses and never had a chance to know the name of the movie. Still, I was sure that it was an IR song - going by the signature drum work and the strings. Not that I would have loved the song any less had I found out that someone else was its composer. It would have been a major surprise without doubt but couldn't have reduced the appreciation of the song any bit!

It was in tfmpage - i.e. more than a decade later - that I asked a question (in the song-stats thread) and found out the name of the movie That way, this song is a very unusual case of being on the top-likes list - to the extent that every bit of the song can play from memory - but without knowing the credits / details! Blame it on TN's bus culture where they didn't announce the movie name but simbly played song after song Funnily enough, in Y2K, there came a movie with the name kaNNa unnai thEdukiREn and fortunately I found out 'unakkAgavE vAzhkiREn' before that. (That makes it a small chain - unakkAkavE (nAn) vAzhgiREn - was the popular anupallavi line from the MGR song vizhiyE kadhai ezhdhu from urimaikkural).

I must mention here the fantastic music quality of the recording centers that supported the buses running between Pazhani & Dindigul! (That Oddanchatram center would have been one among those). They were phenomenal! Combined with the excellent sound equipments those private buses installed those days, it was such a terrific experience for the most part, despite the fact that they played them really loud. (During mid-90's, however, on occasions I had to request the buswAlAs to lower the volume to stop my son's non-stop-crying, often due to nArAsamAna noisy songs that occupied TN's soundscape).

While there may be a few other IR-SPB-SJ numbers in the history that were more liked by me than this, looking at just the year 1986, this is the undisputed champion for this combo and deservingly the last song to close this year

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I am still reading your MTK posts. Too hilarious.

This song is not so much of akkA-thambi feel, however...it has started to feel like ammA-paiyan

thEdum kaN pArvai youtube:(I think this is the quick-sand number)

if someone was in a "dry" thuvAkkudi for 4.5 years and then got employed in an extremely "rainy" Kerala, it was only natural to keep the eyes open for flowers - even during sleep. Due to strong beliefs in self-control / discipline etc, the nectar level - why even "speaking" level - was never reached.

What a terrible stereotyping and underestimating of Mr Viswamithra!

It seems you are totally recharged during the Christmas/New Year holidays. I could not resist laughing out loud. What an energy in your posts. Your eye lock story was very interesting, but you ended so soon. It's unfortunate you didn't talk. But very nice reminiscence.

As you said, MTK songs are one of best in TFM. My picks are thEdum KaNN Paarvai and Ooru Sanam. Somehow I remember this movie also did well, not sure though. Could not forget Mohan's trademark costume and acting, especially in the songs, his unique shaking of head, always in tight shirt, mostly full hand.

Digression: (As this song is not a part of SPB-IR thread), still could not resist.
I could not believe how Kuzhaloothum KaNNanukku transformed from folk to jazz in Cheeni Kum. I would even say, only after the sibling, these two songs were a treat to listen. While the former is Chitra's signature song, the latter is Shreya's signature song. The guitar portions (1:22 - 1:33) in Baatein Hawa followed by the sax are extra-ordinary by any means. How the same tune (which most people associate to TN), when sang in Hindi with different orchestration completely transformed into a perfect Hindi song. That's the Maestro magic for you. It applies to other songs in Cheeni Kum too. Totally that TN flavor is gone. We have to credit Balki too for that.

I didn't want to post this video, still AB's charm in this song is unbelievable. His acting from 0:40-0:52 when he teases Tabu, I love it. The dialogues again are too good. Again one of the best picturized Raja song.

End Digression:

Thanks grouch for posting Vaan Meedhile, stunned to hear the similarity.